Mortared Secrets: The Coat That Proved Laura Was Murdered

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Aug 4, 2026 · 19m

Mortared Secrets: The Coat That Proved Laura Was Murdered

A navy wool coat, a purse, and a spiral notebook were found perfectly dry inside a two-foot cavity mortared into the harbor wall after Tropical Storm Helena - objects sealed there for twelve years and placed less than a mile from where Laura Was was last seen. Who could have known exactly which stone to open, had the access and had the reason to keep that cavity sealed for more than a decade?

In this episode, we tell the story of Laura Was, the young woman who disappeared from Alderman's Wharf on September 8, 1991, and how a storm on…